Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
979
Building Number
2
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1950
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Swayne Johnson & Wight, Solicitors Offices
Address
2 Hall Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Town
Locality
Denbigh - Town
Easting
305317
Northing
366130
Street Side
E
Location
Prominently-sited at the corner with Vale Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late C17 town house with second-half C18 alterations, especially to the facade. In the 1860s the Denbigh solicitor Thomas Gold Edwards had his offices here.
Exterior
Elegant two-and-a-half storey, 3-bay townhouse. Of red brick construction with sandstone quoins on a tall rubble plinth; slated roof with kneelered and slab-coped gable parapets and oversailing eaves with modillion cornice. Reduced end chimneys with rebuilt upper sections and off-set dentil-course. The facade is symmetrical and has a central entrance to a raised ground floor via 4 stone steps. This has a Georgian pilastered doorcase with an open pediment; recessed multi-pane glazed door with panelled reveals and segmental Gothick fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. Flanking this are 2 Venetian windows with central 12-pane, unhorned sash sections, arched intersecting heads and narrow 4-bay flanking sections. Above the entrance is an elegant 15-pane unhorned sash with flanking tripartite windows having similar central and narrow 5-pane outer sections. The Attic floor has 2 hipped dormers with plain 4-pane casements. The L gable end is rendered with its upper section tile-hung.
Interior
Very fine late C17 full-height oak well stair, with spiral balusters, moulded string and square, flat-capped newels. Ground floor L room has contemporary large-field panelling with moulded cornice and ribbed plasterwork decoration to the ceiling, including a foliated circular centrepiece; 2-panel fielded doors and stopped-chamfered beams (ogee stops). Some timber-framed partitioning is visible on the upper floor.
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* as a particularly fine late C17 and C18 town house retaining good original external and internal character.
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